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The Trump administration has not merely made international collaboration on science difficult - in many cases, it's made it unlawful by demoting peer review. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-trumps...

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🧵 Some great scicomms advice here. One thing I'd stress: be ready to 'murder your children'. It's easy if you are an expert to layer on too much detail for a wide audience, partly to demonstrate your expertise; partly because you want to capture nuance 'fully'. It's not your PhD paper. Be ruthless.

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The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

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I've said this before, but if there was ever a project that should have urgently brought in Chinese consultants, it was HS2. But the chance was there and instead.... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.

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From Executive Order 12333 signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 (for what it's worth, obviously).

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Honestly, I still cannot get over the Army playing "Fortunate Son" at Trump's parade. It's like the DJ at Drake's birthday party playing "Not Like Us."

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Counterpart

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As the Senate’s resident privacy hawk I have to recommend against giving Donald Trump your most sensitive health data

submitted 10 days ago • 135 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Laura Loomer holding a snake in each hand speaking in tongues and chasing Rubio around the situation room.

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Amusing to track differing UK and US reactions to the G7 EO snafu with Trump and Starmer- alternative versions of the 'greater fool' theory.

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Does this make Trump look absurdly weak, as though he's been bumped out of the G7 because he has little, if any, influence over Netanyahu? Or welcome to The Theater of the Absurd....

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These are great.

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Get out today if you can! I’m here at the first of two events in Falls Church, VA today, and it’s so heartening. There are TONS of people lining the streets of our little town, block after block. Shouting to drivers honking massively in support. It’s happening everywhere. Join in if you can!

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If your main reason for spreading info about the MN suspect is to say which 'side' he is on, you're a fucking idiot. One message: this person may be armed and dangerous. Avoid and inform law enforcement.

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica

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We forget Silicon Valley was largely founded on DoD investment. It provided key early customers for HP, Fairchild et al. Also, Frederick Terman promoted securing DoD contracts to early spin-outs while Stanford's Provost and helped set up the seminal Industrial (now Research) Park. History rhymes.

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This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

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BREAKING Iran Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami killed in Israeli attack, Iran media reports

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The US raised a flag on the likelihood of tonight's strikes, so were all those senior personnel who've been targeted really 'at home'? A lot of claims to substantiate (though you don't doubt the targeting was done).

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Correction: $14.3bn for 49%

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Amazon Prime Video is going from 3 minutes to 6 minutes of ads per hour. While this is far less than the 15 minutes of ads per hour on TV, it shows the relentless march of enshitification of streaming video isn’t stopping even when you pay $8.99/month.

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Meta invests $15bn in Scale AI. Wang to join Meta in senior role.

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What happened to @padilla.senate.gov is an attempt to intimidate anyone with a dissenting view of this Administration and stop them from exercising their First Amendment rights. We will not be silenced. youtu.be/7dNpkFlP0BQ

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I've 30+ years as a hack. 1. Pressers in govt buildings always need credentials to enter (Press Card, RSVP, Official ID). 2. Aides and security know the guest list and also who is likely to turn up, particularly local politicians. 3. See a rival. Put someone nearby. YOU DO NOT PILE IN Unless...

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Do you guys think the DHS secretary didn’t recognize the ranking member of the Senate immigration subcommittee

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Problem with saying Padilla wasn't wearing a Senate Pin. These 'highly experience DHS professionals' had not familiarized themselves anyway with major political figures in the state where their secretary was speaking. They fucked up. Now it's too late to apologize. That will have consequences.

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Malcolm Turnbull: “The UK is conducting a review of AUKUS. The US DoD is conducting a review of AUKUS. But Australia, which has the most at stake, has no review. Our Parliament to date has been the least curious and least informed. Time to wake up?” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

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🧪 The entire Fulbright Board resigned, citing the Trump administration's alleged usurpation of authority and denial of selected recipients. They assert these actions contradict the Fulbright-Hays Act and undermine the program's bipartisan mission. #AcademicSky

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Just remembering that 'Do You Hear The People Sing?' from Les Mis was one of the signature songs of the Hong Kong protests. I wonder why.

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Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

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Oh man, we all knew this was coming and likely from Disney but now Universal too for the double-whammy. It is indeed a full-on nuking. 🧵

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This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

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Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have enter the legal battle over generative AI.

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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